patient care

Paramedic practice in low light conditions: a scoping review

Suggestions from the professional panel to improve driving were limited. The use of a dark mode to reduce the glare from the mobile data terminal was suggested as was using the low-power mode for blue...

Gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB): a review for the prehospital clinician

The literature search identified 387 results and, once duplicates had been removed, 262 results remained. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) method (Moher...

Troponin testing in primary care: can it improve diagnosis and prevent admission?

The limitations of this systematic review largely concern the quality of the included studies. With all studies scoring either three or below on the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine Levels of...

‘Just little tricks’: an exploration of treating children in pain

The aim of this study was to explore UK paramedics’ experience of treating paediatric patients in pain..

Reaching underserved people during the pandemic

Between May 2020 and April 2021, the regional AHEC in the northwest portion of Indiana partnered with a local community integrated health service organisation to expand access to COVID-19 antibody...

The efficacy of the HEART score in prehospital settings

Following a scoping search, formulation of the inclusion/exclusion criteria began. The PICOS (population, intervention, comparator, outcome and study design) framework was used to aid this process...

Prognostic value of lactate in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a prospective cohort study

A single-centre, prospective cohort study was conducted by North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust between 17 February 2020 and 31 March 2021..

Air ambulance outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest seen in the pandemic

Thames Valley Air Ambulance (TVAA) provides prehospital enhanced and critical care to patients in the counties of Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire between 07:00 and 02:00, 365 days a year....

Predicting conveyance to the emergency department for older adults who fall

North West–Greater Manchester North West Research Ethics Committee (18/NW/0763) and the Health Research Authority provided ethics approval for this study..

Awareness and use of prone position for awake patients with suspected COVID-19

The study design was a cross-sectional survey, structured and reported using the ‘Strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology’ (STROBE) guidelines (Cuschieri, 2019) and...

Prehospital point-of-care biomarkers: missing link in acute myocardial infarction?

Preliminary searching of the extent of the literature determined that the body of evidence surrounding cardiac biomarkers in the prehospital setting was limited. Because the literature was so sparse,...

Acute medical condition of patients with femoral neck fracture

The age of patients with femoral neck fracture was significantly correlated with neurological condition (rho 0.10 (95% CI (0.07–0.13); P≤0.001; n=4701), indicating a rise in neurological impairment...